Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals

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Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and supplies the reader with the knowledge to make qualified managerial decisions. This book looks at next-generation computing platforms and global cyber-infrastructure for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and business. Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals includes a diverse range of topics, such as deployment considerations, facilities and tools for creating and managing grid and portal applications, including tools for visually linking corporate databases into grid or portal applications. This book also provides an overview of other web technologies such as EJB and servlets, while comparing them to portals and grids and suggesting how to approach various analysis and design challenges.

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Dr. Jana Polgar is a lecturer at the School of Network Computing, Monash University where she teaches software engineering and web technologies in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She holds a PhD from RMIT, Melbourne, Australia and a Masters degree from VUT Brno, Czecholsovakia. In addition to her research in software engineering she has published many articles and book chapters and presented several papers on managing quality of service of streaming multimedia over the Internet. Robert Mark Bram teaches at Monash University, in Australia. Tony Polgar holds a Masters degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Charles University in Prague and a Masters degree in Computing from Monash University. He has been a practicing manager for large enterprise applications and portal development for more than 20 years. He also worked ten years for IBM and holds an IBM worldwide qualification as a Certified Project Manager.